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INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR

For some time “The Dearborn Independent” has been publishing consecu¬
tive articles under the heading, “The International Jew.” Obviously the object
of these articles, much discussed wherever Mr. Ford’s weekly is being read, is
to attack and belittle the Jews in America. The Jew is pictured as having usurped
all authority, and is rapidly building up, by unfair means, a super-structure of
world domination. In writing and placing this booklet upon the market, the
author assumes a task which he fully realizes, is meant for men with influence
and ability, capacities which the author cannot boast of possessing. But the
public has waited long enough for some reply to Mr. Ford’s articles, and since
no one else has thus far undertaken to accept Mr. Ford’s challenge, the writer
of this much-too-significant book begs the public to accept it for what it is worth.
And its worth must be determined by the reader himself.

Mr. Henry Ford passes as a Christian gentleman. If this be so,
then he has left out in his catalogue of eulogies the fact, that his
Saviour, Jesus of Nazareth, was a Jew; that all of the apostles, even
those who converted his idol-worshiping ancestors to the faith of
Jehovah, were Jews. He has also perhaps forgotten that the very
hymns he sings on Sunday morning were written by King David, the
Jew; and that the New Testament is a distinctly Jewish production.
Sages and fools declare that all civilization is based upon the teachings
of the Jew, Jesus, and if Mr. Ford considers himself civilized, he
therefore owes his civilization to the Jews. I will go further than
this. I will declare Mr. Henry Ford himself to be a Jew as far as his
religion is concerned, if it is true that he is a follower of Christ. His
ancestors had no religion. The Jewish preachers, in their attempt to
spread the teachings of the existing Jewish religion, came upon the
Gentiles with the declaration that there is one living God,, whose name
is Jehovah and that all those who would accept the manifestation of
that Jehovah in the person of Jesus the Annointed One, would be
accepted into the new faith by baptism. And so all those Gentiles who

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accepted the religion as taught by these Jewish Apostles, accepted the
Apostles 9 religion and became Jews, believing in and worshiping the
Q*od of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and accepting the Jew, Jesus, as
their spiritual guide and saviour.

They then were called ‘ ‘Maschichim“ (Christians), moaning “followers of
the Mashiach M (Messiah), or in the modern vernacular “Christ .’’ And so it
came about that the ancestors of Mr, Henry Ford became Jews by religion which
justifies us in saying that Mr. Henry Ford, if a follower of Christ, is a Jew.

The Dearborn Independent has few paid subscribers, and yet it
has perhaps the widest circulation of any weekly known. I say it has
few regular, voluntary subscribers. The reader of my booklet may
start out among his neighbors and verify this himself. The writer
receives the “Dearborn Independent” regularly, and yet he has never
subscribed for it. How did he then come to get it? Complimentary?
Not by any means. The writer does not enjoy such friendship and
fellowship with Mr. Henry Ford, as to become a recipient of a com¬
plimentary subscription. But he owns a cheap automobile, manufac¬
tured by Mr. Ford’s working people. When he purchased the little
car, he paid the price for it. and drove off. Two weeks after the pur¬
chase, the Dearborn Independent began to arrive at the address which
the writer gave as his residence. When questioned about tho matter,
the Ford salesman, employed by one of tho Rochester Ford agencies,
had this to say, “Qh, I can tell you how you come to get tho Inde¬
pendent. We are supposed to make of every purchaser of a Ford a reg¬
ular paid-up subscriber of the Dearborn Independent. Now, we are
not in the magazine business, and have never had any success in sell¬
ing Mr. Ford’s weekly along side with automobiles so this is tho way
we do it: rather than harangue our customers with tho Independent,
we dig down into our own pockets, pay the one dollar required, and
send in the name of the purchaser. Thus at the small cost of one
dollar per car, we accomplish the absolute requirement, and save
ourselves the trouble of actually selling magazines to the public, when
our business is really selling automobiles.” This explains it all. The
reader of this booklet may inquire in every home where a Ford is
owned, and he will find this statement to be correct. The Dearborn
Independent is therefore a free publication, enjoying second-class privi¬
leges and while having a large circulation, it has few regular sub¬
scribers.

January, 1921.

ABRAH A M SILVERSTEIN,

Box, 544, Rochester, N. Y.

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THE JEW IN CHARACTER AND BUSINESS.

In the first article of the Dearborn Independent, Air. Ford states,
“ Persecution is not a new experience to the Jew, but intensive scrutiny
of his nature and super-nationality is.” Persecution is indeed an age¬
long experience to the Jew. He has become accustomed to it, yes, he
has come to look upon persecution as a most necessary evil. Without
persecution, the Jew would almost consider himself as non-existant.
But what causes persecution? The very thing which Mr. Ford thinks
to be new, namely, a supposition on the part of the Jew’s antagonists,
that the Jew is a super-man, or a super-nation and deserves to be scrut¬
inized. The scrutinizing is of necessity begun with premeditation, and
prejudice, hence faults are found, charges made, hatred stirred up, and
behold the persecution. For two thousand years the Jew has endured
it, and he is ready to still endure it. Almost every nation on earth has
tried to exterminate the Jew from the face of the earth, and no nation
has ever bled as did the Jewish nation for all these long ages. And
yet, here they are, ready for more persecution if need be, to prove to the
world that they are entitled to a place in the world which was created
not for them only, but for them also. Many other races have gone over
into historical remembrance with no persecution or very much less per¬
secution than the Jew has had to endure. But the Jew is here, gentle¬
men, and if you kill him his offspring will shoot forth and the Jew will
still be here. The writer believes in God, in the Bible, the book which
Mr. Ford holds dearly, or should, inasmuch as he is a devout Baptist.
This Bible has traced in prophetic order the glory, the suffering, the
poverty, and riches of the Jew, and in no uncertain terms declares that
the Jew is to remain in spite of the great- desire of interested combines
to eliminate him from among nations.

What Mr. Ford therefore designates as a scrutinizing inquiry, is
really intended for a prologue of another persecution of the Jews, this
time to be dramatized upon the public stage of the American continent.
But, as was fully stated by him in person at that famous one million
dollar trial, Mr. Ford knows but little of American affairs, of Ameri¬
can patriotism or American Americanism. The American people will
never consent to follow Mr. Ford in anything he undertakes to do, any
more than they have followed him in any of his other foolhardy enter¬
prises which were directly connected with world affairs. He has money
and does not know how to spend it. So he spends it in this way. But-
real Americans will not become so easily prejudiced as Mr. Ford, be¬
cause they know better.

ARE JEWS BOLSHEVIKS?

In this first article of attack, Mr. Ford charges the Jews with
being the source of Bolshevism in Russia. This is the first lie in the
series of the Independent. The Jews, as Jews had no more to do with
the organization of the Soviet Government, than had Mr. Ford with
the creation of the world. The real organizer is Lenine. He is a

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Russian. His brother was executed by a decree of the late Czar, and
licnine swore vengeance. Tie gathered around him a group of men
who were willing to share in the responsibilities of his newly proposed
reign of the Reds. Among these men there are some who were bom by
Jewish parents. Trotzkv is one of them. Trotzky was a Jew when only
a child. He later renounced all allegiance to the Jewish faith and still
later renounced his Jewish nationality. He is, therefore, no longer a
Jew. Repeatedly he has of late decreed that he believed in no God, and
Jews and Gentiles are alike to him. If bloodshed there was by his
doings then Jewish blood flowed alongside with the Russian peasant’s
blood. He makes no discrimination. It is therefore an abominable lie
to say that Jews have anything in common with Bolshevism in Russia.
Even here in America, every Jewish Socialist has severed all connec¬
tions insofar as religion or nationality is concerned. A Bolshevik is a
Bolshevik. He is neither Jew nor Gentile. The same may be said of
Americanism. An American citizen is an American. Our government
regards him as such. His previous allegiance having been severed, he
no longer is anything save an American. His religion has nothing at
all to do with his national allegiance. If Mr. Ford came from England,
and if he started something which would be akin to Bolshevism, should
we say that an Englishman had started it?

THE JEWS IN GERMANY.

In the same breath he charges the Jew with being the cause of
Germany’s collapse. In the second article of calumny this sentence
appears, “the sole winners of the war were Jews.” In other words, if
the Jews were the sole winners of the war then it was criminal on the
part of our government to send out two millions of our boys, many of
whom died on the battlefields; it was useless to have all the nations
spend billions upon billions in money and ammunition; useless for the
brave nurses and chaplains and organizations to go forth and make
the greatest sacrifices ever made in the time of history; useless to have
prayed and wept, to have suffered and died,—if the Jews could win
the war by themselves. But of this later on. What strikes our atten¬
tion more particularly is the “charge made” that the Jews have caused
the collapse of Germany. No one in Germany accuses the Jew of such
a thing. If this were so, the Germans would have found it out and the
Jews would have been kept out of controlling offices. But the very
contrary has occurred. The Jews in America were found to be loyal
and efficient administrators, and were installed in responsible positions.
The same thing happened right after the war in Germany. The Jews
were found to have been loyal to their government, as they should,
and the result is as follows: (Note. The following statement is also
taken from the Dearborn Independent):

“The cabinet composed of six men, which substituted the Minister
of State, was dominated by the Jews, Haase and Landsberg. Haase
had control of foreign affairs; his assistant was the Jew Kautsky, a
Czech, who in 1918 was not even' a German citizen.| Also associated

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with Haase were the Jews, Cohn and Herzfeld. The Jew, Sehiffer, was
Financial Minister of State assisted by the Jew, Berstein. The Secre¬
tary of the Interior was the Jew, Preuss, with the Jew, Dr. Freund, for
his assistant. The Jew, Fritz Max Cohen, who was correspondent of
the Frankfurter Zeitung in Copenhagen, was made government pub¬
licity agent.

The kingdom of Prussia duplicated this eondtiion of affairs. The
Jews, Ilirseli and Rosenfeld, dominated the cabinet, with Rosenield
controlling the Department of Interior. The Jew, Simon, was in charge
of the Treasury Department. The Prussian Department of Justice was
wholly manned and operated by Jews. The Director of Education was
the Jew Furtan with the assistance of the Jew, Arndt. The Director of
the Colonial Office was the Jew, Meyer-Gerhard. The Jew, Kastenberg,
was director of the Department of Art. The War Food Supply Depart¬
ment w r as directed by the Jew, Wurm, while in the State Food Depart¬
ment were the Jews, Prof. Dr. Hirscli, and the Geheiinrat Dr. Stad-
thagen. The Soldiers’ and Workingmen’s Committee was directed by
the Jew, Cohen, with the Jews Stern, Iierz, Lowenberg, Frankel, Israel-
owicz, Laubenheim, Seligsohn, Katbenstein, Laufenferb, Heimann,
Schelsinger, Mcrz and Weyl having control of various activities of
that committee.

The Jew Ernst is chief of police at Berlin; in the same office at
Frankfurt is the Jew Sinzheimer; in Munich the Jew Steiner; in Essen
the Jew Levy. It will be remembered that the Jew, Eisner, was Presi¬
dent of Bavaria, his financial minister being the Jew, Jaffe. Bavaria’s
trade, commerce and industry were in control of the half-Jew, Brent-
ano. The Jews, Lipsinsky and Schwarz, were active in the government
of Saxony; the Jews, Thalheimer and Herman in Wurtemberg; the
Jew, Fulda, in Hessen.

Two delegates sent to the Peace Conference were Jews. In addi¬
tion Jews swarmed through the German delegation as experts and ad¬
visors—Max Warburg, Dr. von Strauss, Merton, Oskar Oppenheimer,
Dr. Jaffe, Deutsch, Brentano, Bernstein, Struck, Rathenau, Wasser-
mann, and Mendelsohn-Bartholdi.”

Thus we brand the second lie as far as the Jewish disloyalty in
Germuny is concerned. Instead of collapsing it, they have rebuilt the
shattered empire and are now conducting through the offices in which
they were placed by popular German votes, a far more acceptable sort
of Government, under a Gentile leader, than existed prior to the Great
War. As in every other country, so in Germany, the few capable Jews
who hold high offices have been selected by the people, the real people
who are the only judges as to who is to rule them, and the fact that
they happen to be Jews does not make the slightest difference to the
Germans, or they would certainly disfranchise them, their constitution
having plenty of provisions for such measures if found necessary. This
infernal Ford slander of the Jews stands therefore discredited.

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JEWISH POWER IN ENGLAND.

In England, Ford charges, the Jews is regarded as the supreme
ruler of both England and the whole world. Such a statement can
indeed come only from a disorganized mind. The charge in itself is so
ridiculous that to deny it would be only a waste of time and paper.

JEWS RULING AMERICA,

In America, the infamous calumny goes on saying, “ It is pointed
out” to what extent the elder Jews of wealth and the younger Jews ol*
ambition swarmed through the war organizations—principally those
departments which dealt with the commercial and industrial business
of war.” The reader will please notice that when these lies are told of
conditions relative to Jewish things abroad, the Ford 'articles use the
term “it is charged that,” etc. but when he proceeds to calumnize Jews
here at home, he uses the term, “it is pointed out that the Jews,” etc.
He wouldnot dare say, “charged,” because no one except Ford's
millions do the charging. Here it is only being “pointed out.” Dis¬
tance lends charm and also aids <a lie. But apart from this Ford
camouflage, a direct charge of corruptness, bribery and embezzlement
is here being made against our own American government. If anyone
else was to make such a charge and cast such nefarious reflections upon
the American government, he would immediately be called a Bolshevik
and be deported,—if he were an alien.

The writer is very much tempted at this moment to call Henry
Ford an arch-Bolshevist, but he does not dare do it, for fear that Mr.
Ford might institute a “million dollar” suit against him, and the
writer not having anything besides his wife and six children, wishes
to spare Mr. Ford the expense of such a trial. Therefore we do not
call him a Bolshevik. And yet right here he does say tilings about the
government, which if believed would make Bolshevism grow more
abundantly and finally aid in the overthrow of a corrupt government,
which according to this charge made, has permitted Jews and cut¬
throats to cheat our government, to swindle it and to rob it in broad
daylight. “The Jews have swarmed through the war organizations.”
How could they swarm through them without knowledge or permis¬
sion of the American government? It means plainly, that the Gentiles
were pushed to the front, deprived of their positions and the Jews
were invited to come in and help themselves to everything while the
Gentile was doing the “trench act.” Anyone trying to spread such a
hellish lie, designed to cause envy, bitterness and strife, should be
prayed for in all the churches of the country, because he is going fast
—towards his destination, which is not the Kingdom of Heaven.

Of course, Mr. Ford has nothing at all to say about the hundreds
of thousands of Jews who have gone out alongside with their Gentile

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brothers, to fight shoulder to shoulder against a common enemy.
Harder still was the task for the Jew, because on the battlefield he met
his brother Jew of Germany and yet he had to shoot,—and shoot to
kill. If this is not heroic, sacrifical, patriotic and unparalleled devo¬
tion to the country which he served, then we would like to know
what is.

INCONSISTENCIES OP MR. FORD.

The inconsistency of statements concerning the status of the Jew
are very marked in Mr. Ford's articles. So for instance in one place
he says that the Jews are rich and in another that they are poverty
stricken beggars; once he says that they are a hardy race, little sus¬
ceptible to sickness, which accounts for their longivity and then again
he brands the Jews a sickly, lean race doomed to extinction; now he
says that the Jew is very influential and dominates the world because
he is a super-man and then he styles him as a dependent mongrel wait¬
ing for the crumbs that fall oft* his master's table. Throughout the
whole series this inconsistency is noticeable, which only proves that
the real motive behind these articles can be none other than to keep
the fires burning until a conflagration has leaped and engulfed the
civilization structure so painfully built up.

THE USURPATION AND CONTROL OF INDUSTRIES.

The Jews are charged with controlling the sugar industries, the
cotton production and the finances of the world. Even if it were so,
it does not prove anything, as anyone with pep and American “go-to-
it-iveness” can attain the control of any of these things if indeed it
may be called an attainment. But this is another misrepresentation
of facts. Poor sugar, how they do insist in using thee as a pretence
every time somebody must be “knocked.” When the anti-Mormon
progaganda was on, and the Mormons were persecuted during the
war, the one great charge was made that they controlled the sugar
interests and were to blame for the high prices; that they controlled
the cotton of the world and hence some more high prices and that
they were rapidly coming to be the controllers of the finances of the
world. At another instant, when some Protestant fanatics, who were
neither Jews nor Christians, but just plain Gentiles, entered into a
spiteful combine against Roman Catholics, the charge was made, that
the Papal representatives in America were rapidly taking possession
of all the sugar in the world, all of the cotton and that soon no man
would have a dollar to his name unless he was a Catholic. Now Ford
comes out with a new one. This time it is the Jew who has gobbled up
everything and holds it and will not let go of any of it. We know,
however, that when the price of sugar did come down, announcement
was made to that effect from a certain large Sugar Trust in Yonkers,
N. Y., and we also know that the man who made the reduction, causing
the price all over this country to come down, was neither a Jew, nor a

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Mormon, nor a Roman Catholic. We also know, speaking ajbout
profiteering and accumulating, that the price of the Ford cars was kept
up and boosted up and held there until the people who needed them,
(and it is only the man who absolutely needs a car and cannot afford
to buy a real one, who was forced to pay the outrageous high price for
a Ford) were bled white, and that said high price was cut down only
when Mr. Henry Ford himself had said the word, proving that some
high-handed profiteering was done right from the center of Mr. Ford’s
own control of the mentioned article. We therefore gently suggest
that Mr. Ford, dwelling within a glass house, would do well to stay
therein and cease throwing bricks.

FORD QUOTES BIBLE.

And now Mr. Ford treads upon dangerous ground when he asserts
that it is a peculiar characteristic of the Jew to exact usury upon loans
from strangers and not to ask for interest on loans extended to a
brother Jew. To substantiate this 4 ‘charge” he quotes Bible Scripture,
“Unto a stranger thou mayest lend money upon usury ; but unto thy
brother thou shalt not lend upon usury.” We say Amen to this. But
Mr. Ford has never taken the trouble to study Hebrew. How could
he? He occupied most of his time on prices of cardboard paper, with
which every Ford car, and especially the one belonging to the author
of this book, is plentifully supplied, and so he merely read the passage
of the Bible and made his own untutored interpretation. The passage
reads as printed above and means just what it says, namely, that when
a man’s own brother borrowed money, the man was to charge no in¬
terest, but when a Jew, being no relation, but a stranger, asked for
a loan, then the lawful interest could be charged. Mr. Ford wishes to
imply, however, that by brother, the Bible meant to emphasize a Jew,
any Jew, whether related or not, and that the word stranger meant to
indicate a man of other than Jewish extraction, or a Gentile. The
venomous insinuation is plainly visible. The idea is to so enrage the
Gentile reader of the Dearborn Independent, that he would have
nothing to do with the Jews or their kin. It is a dastardly accusation,
entirely without foundation: it is a misinterpretation of the Holy Bible
with a view of using God’s Holy Word for murderous purposes. We
say “murderous” because such accusations, unjust though they be,
have resulted in wholesale murders against innocent Jews in barbarous
countries, where people were fools enough to believe them. The fact is,
that when a Jew asks for a loan from another Jew, the same propor¬
tion of interest is paid without any discrimination.

JEWS OR ISRAEL—WHICH??

In connection with the above Biblical exposition on the part of
our learned “Accuser,” we find him juggling with the word “Israel.”
In the first articles of slander, Mr. Ford accuses “Israel,” using the
word repeately as designating the Jews as a race or nation. All

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things that bear shame upon “Israel” are mentioned as with refer¬
ence to tie Jews. Later on, the slanderer wishes to impress his read¬
ers with the fact that “Israel” does not mean Jews at all, but Anglo-
Saxons. Whether the Anglo-Saxons are the real Israelites or not, w r e
do not wish to discuss here, but what we do wish to say is, that the
inconsistency in the use of the name, “Israel” is a crime as it appears
in the articles of the Independent. When “Israel” was Godless and
shorn of Glory, “Israel” was the Jew. Then again, whenever “Israel”
rose to glory and wherever some beautiful prophecy of restoration
and power of “Israel” was concerned, Mr. Ford says that “Israel”
was meant to represent not the Jews, but some other people. Absurd?
Anyone may judge for himself.

“TO THE JEW FIRST” AND ONLY FOR HIM.

In the ravings against the Jews, these articles in Mr. Ford’s paper
howl about the Jews being first in everything. So for instance, the
Jews landed 100 years before the Pilgrim Fathers reached Plymouth
Rock; the first white child born in Georgia was a Jew—Isaac Minnis,
showing, of course, they had already penetrated into the northern part
of the Americas; the first department stores were organized by Jews;
the first Bill of Exchange extant was drawn by a Jew—Simon Rubens;
they first invented and used the promissory note; the check ‘ ‘ to bearer ’ 1
and were first to establish stock exchanges. In Berlin, Paris, London,
Frankfort and Hamburg, Jews were in control of the first stock ex¬
changes, while Venice and Genoa were openly called Jewish cities
because of the banking and exchange facilities that could be found
there. The Bank of England and the Bank of Amsterdam, great com¬
mercial centers, were established by Jews; the Jews are credited also
in the Ford articles with inventing the Financial News Letter as well
as with the establishing of branch houses for the exchange of financial
operations. All these things the Jew is charged with. We fail to see
any crime in all this. Where would Mr. Ford be today if it were not
for the financial facilities which these “horrid” Jews have made possi¬
ble for him? IIow would he trade with the world, where his auto¬
mobiles are being shipped by the hundreds of thousands? Should the
world have waited until he, Mr. Ford, could invent these facilities? Is it
not rather a credit to the Jew, and has he not thus contributed towards
the expansion of trade, making it possible for nations to have some
common link between them, whereby employment could be created for
millions of men, and products be imported and exported with greater
dispatch than was done before the Jews started the new and better
way? If these things are really crimes and not virtues, then the Jew
is indeed a criminal. Every invention Mr. Ford concedes to the Jew—
except the invention of the Ford automobile.

One might wonder why Mr. Ford has made mention of these
Jewish inventions in commerce. One might think that he intended
to say some real nice things in favor of the Jew. But far be it from
him. This is what he says at the conclusion of his howling, “All these

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inventions were meant to serve his race well. ” In other words, these
commercial facilities, which up to now have become standardized
throughout the world, and have become the greatest blessing to men
who are doing business, were invented for the benefit of the Jew only.
This we call a mean, contemptible hallucination of Mr. Ford 's mind.

“JEW” MEANS ECONOMIC TROUBLE.

Also, here is another one. The Jew causes all economic reverses
in the country in which he is living. “All business reverses or hard
times are deliberately caused by the Jews.” Another charge in one of
the Ford articles states that the Jew is greedy for money, more so
than the Gentile, who, it is implied, wants money only when he
wants to eat, and does not care for money or more money at any
other time, or for any other purpose. These two charges, if put to¬
gether, as we do now, would compel the reader to say that only a
lunatic could have drawn them up. If the Jew is greedy for money, why
should he want to cause economic reverses? Does an economic dis¬
aster not carry with it a great slump in business, a loss of sales, a depre¬
ciation of property and a calamitous financial condition? If the Jew
is greedy for money, he would be losing by such a procedure, and
therefore it would be suicidal for him to create such an unfavorable
business situation.

Neither a Jew nor a Gentile ever creates chaos in finance and
business. Such fatal occurrences, as an economic earthquake, is caused
by conditions entirely dependent on the social relationship of the world.
The Jew has no more to do with it than -has Mr. Ford in the building
of a really good and substantial automobile.

In concluding his article, Mr. Ford designates the Jew' with the
following attributes, “He is the holder of super-capitalism; the Jews
are the super-government, it is a super-capitalistic government and the
Jews are super-men.” Very fine titles indeed, but the Jew most thank¬
fully declines to be called such names. The Jew does not and never
has assumed a super-ambition. He is a man among men; he fights as do
other men; he rises or falls as do other men; there are rich men and
poor men; sick men and strong; there are wise men and fools among
them; in short, they are men as God made them, and as other mortals,
so are the Jews striving to be men as God intended them to be.

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PART TWO.

We will now peruse some of the statements made by the antag¬
onist of American Judaism in an article entitled, “German’s Reaction
Against the Jew.” In it, Mr. Ford strongly emphasizes the destruc¬
tion of the German Imperial machine to direct Jewish influence and
power. And yet, strange as it may seem, he boldly declares: “The
Jew is not an anarchist. He is not a destructionist. ” If two opposite
statements are made in describing an object, then one of them must
be wrong. Either the Jew is a destructionist and has been found guilty
of overthrowing the German government or else he is not a destruction¬
ist, nor an anarchist, and therefore was loyal. Which does Mr. Ford
want to uphold? He states that the Jew has become a repulsive crea¬
ture in Germany. If that were so, then hundreds of Jews would not
have been called upon to fill trusted and responsible positions at the
very head of the German government.

THE SECRET JEWISH GANG OF BANDITS.

In an effort to lend his story some realistic sensationalism, the
editor of the Dearborn Independent invents a new name for a sup¬
posed Jewish World Organization which has never existed, and of
which no one, Jew or Gentile, has ever heard until Mr. Henry Ford
himself made the discovery. He declares that there is such an organ¬
ization which styles itself the “ ALL-JUDAAN.” This All-Judaan is
the only state that exercises world government; all other states can
and may exercise national government only. The government of the
All-Judaan is wonderfully organized. Paris was its first seat but has
now been moved to third place. Before the war London was its first,
and New York will now supplant London—the drift is toward America.
All-Judaan is not in a position to maintain an army and navy,—other
nations must supply these for the Jews. It can make war, it can make
peace; it can command anarchy in stubborn places, it ean restore
order. All-Judaan has its vice-governments in London and New York.
Having wreaked its revenge on Germany it will go forth to conquer
other nations. Britain it already has. Russia it is struggling for. The
United States is next.”

Henry Ford is trying to “kid” the American public. If things
were really as he pictures them to be, then woe be to you America

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dear! Thy future is doomed and soon thou wilt be engulfed in the
greedy and bloody claws of that beast called All-soinething-or-some-
body. Some foolish parents frighten their children by saying, “0, if
you don’t stop crying, the man with the two tails and four horns and
one eye is going to get you.” But such parents are foolish. In trying
to pacify, they create fear and consternation; instead of order they
create chaos; instead of beauty they imprint hideous ashes. And this
is what the Dearborn Independent is doing. It tells the story of a
secret organization which, if it existed at all, must have found concep¬
tion in Mr. Ford’s benighted brain.

All through the articles in the Dearborn Independent, not a single
important charge is made on authoritative foundation. Always, it
either “is being pointed out” that the “Jews did this or that,” or else,
“it is being said” or the “world has found out,” or “we see for our¬
selves.” But nowhere is a statement intelligently substantiated by
facts. The Jews have seen many persecutions, and every persecution
was preceded by just such calumnies and false charges as are found
in Mr. Ford’s paper, but even in uncultured Russia, during the Jew-
killing Season, the papers opposed to the existence of Jews, have made
a better show of telling lies.

WHY HENRY FORD ATTACKS THE JEWS.

Before we go on to the next heading, dealing with a bit of Jewish
history as seen through Mr. Ford’s eyes we would like to say a word
or two as to our own personal opinion, why Mr. Ford is publishing
these articles. The writer has witnessed persecutions abroad. The
Jews knew that when the equilibrium of their peace was threatened,
and some publisher began a series of articles, bitterly attacking the
Jews, the respective publisher was out for a bribe; that lie needed
money, and that his articles were meant only to be a suggestion to the
Jews to “come across.” In many instances the Jews, rather than lose
their lives, would combine and actually pay the blackmail exacted of
them. But the Jews are used to such things. Kings and prelates have
done the same things to them. Now, when we mention the shameful
motive of some editors abroad, we do not at all imply that the same
motive fosters Mr. Ford’s attacks. He does not need Jewish money, he
has his own, a great deal of which it may incidentally be mentioned,
came from Jewish pockets. (It is a well-known fact, that in larger
cities the Ford automobile is called, not “Lizzie” but “Ikey.’ ) But
the reason for his prejudice, his hatred, his nonsensical outburst against
three million people who have helped him to be what he is today, is not
greed, but JEALOUSY and PEEVISHNESS. Just common ordinary
jealously. And this is why we say.it.

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“SEEK AND YE SHALL FIND”—BUT NOT IN FORD’S CASE.

During the late war, Henry Ford made frantic efforts to get him¬
self named general overseer of all commercial organizations of Amer¬
ica. A widely-spread propaganda to that effect was directed from the
offices -of Henry Ford’s trusted and well-paid campaign managers.
Americans will remember that at that particular time it was said, as
was during the Harding-Cox election, that “Ford is the right man;
look at the business he has built up,” etc. Of course, we remember.
But just the opposite happened. Ford was not named. Somebody else
was, and that somebody else just happened to be an American of
♦Jewish extraction. Then Henry Ford, we are told, lias repeatedly tried
for the honor of Foreign Ambassador. He said to himself, “If a
Chicago brewer could be sent abroad to occupy the exalted position
of an American ambassador, why cannot I?” Besides, we are told,
the money question or salary never entered Mr. Ford’s mind. But
he was not made ambassador to Turkey, and Elkus was. Now Elkus, as
everyone knows, is not a near relative to the late Mayor of Cork in
Ireland. Neither is Morgenthau, but it is conceded that Jew or no
Jew, they are exceptional diplomats in Europe. It is not the knowledge
of making automobiles cheap which qualifies a man for the position
of a United States Power of Attorney abroad. The man who represents
the United States abroad, is the President of America, in the person
of that representative. And the government has done well to make
very careful selection for these posts. Now every ambassador is NOT
a Jew, but the positions which Mr. Ford wanted, were all thus far
filled by Jews. In one of his articles, he raves at Mr. Baruch’s “great
power and influence in America during the Tvar. ” This is the very posi¬
tion Mr. Ford sought, and lost. And to think that a Jew should be
asked to take over the responsibilities connected with all internal and
external commercial and financial operations, when here was no less a
personality than Henry Ford, ready and willing to confer the great
honor upon the American people and government by taking these very
reins into his hands,—and after all he has done, lie was left out and
his generous offer was not accepted. When during a certain period
of the war, automobiles could not be shipped abroad, and to certain
minds it suddenly occurred that the time had come for the war to
cease, who pops up over night with peace proposals but Henry Ford?
He is going to “get the boys out before Christmas.” He had wonder¬
ful plans. He even influenced a certain well-known clergyman of a
Fifth Avenne church to abandon his “holy work” and give himself
to the more noble service of peace to the world and good will towards
men,—(at increased salary, of course), and since this ungrateful Amer¬
ican government did not want to send Ilnry Ford as its representa¬
tive of peace, he started out on his own hook. This is a free country
and everybody can do as he pleases in the spending of his money. So
Ford began to spend his money. He built a ship, took with him a
lot of photographers, ready and handy to snap pictures of the Apostle
of Peace, the clergyman, for without him, people might think Ford did
not have any religion, and started out for the battlefronts. The boys
did get out of the trenches, but not before that Christmas, it was a
little later. And who, according to Ford’s own articles, won the war
and thus got the boys out? Gentlemen, it is a most abominable thing

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to have to acknowledge, but “the Jews did it.” Again the Jews.
(Read “Germany's Reaction Against the Jew" by Henry Ford, second
paragraph, last line, “the sole winners of the war were Jews.”) In¬
furiated jealousy must have filled the soul of the father of so many
wrecked automobiles, when he had to return and only find that the
greatest ambition of his life was again frustrated by the Jews. One
great point we MUST yield to Mr. Ford, he has a remarkable capacity
for imagination. So great is that capacity and so filled is it with imag¬
inary secrets and plots and murders and things, that very little room
for ought else is left. And Mr. Ford is only a human being and has
only one head. It is therefore not the motive of greed which caused
Mr. Ford to attack the Jews, but low-down jealousy and unfounded
prejudice. And were it not for the fact that there are here in this
country men and women from all parts of the world who as yet have
not learned that it is possible for men with the money and influence of
a man like Ford, to say things detrimental to the Jewish race, without
wishing to cause bloodshed,—if it were not for the fact that these for¬
eign-born are accustomed to go out into the streets and murder Jews,
the writing and publishing of this reply would have absolutely no justi¬
fication, as the charges made by Henry Ford are childish and prac¬
tically harmless as far as intelligent people are concerned. But it is
the peasant from Russia, the Mujik from Poland, and the illiterate from
Galicia who are flocking here by the thousands and who are given free
eopies of translations made of the Ford anti-Jewish articles, which we
take into consideration when we proceed to distribute this book.

A BIT OF JEWISH HISTORY.

The following assertions are taken from the article in the Dearborn
Independent entitled, “Jewish History in the United States.” “The
story of the Jews in America begins with Christopher Columbus.
Columbus himself tells us that he consorted much with Jews. When
Queen Isabella offered to pawn her jewels so as to make it possible
for Columbus to undertake the great voyage, Louis de Santagel, a Jew,
and general governor of taxes in Spain, craved permission to advance
the money himself, which he did to the amount of $160,000, in present
valuation. This amount exceeded the expedition's cost. Associated
with Columbus were at least five Jews: Louis de Torres, Marco, the
surgeon, Bernal, the physician, Alonzo de le Calle and Gabriel Sanchez.
The astronomical instruments and maps which the navigators used were
of Jewish origin. Louis de Torres was the first man ashore, the first
to discover the use of tobacco; he settled in Cuba and may be said to
be the father of Jewish control of the tobacco business as it exists
today.”

And here begins a new barrage of insults and calumnies upon the
heads of all those who call themselves Jews. The grievance is that the
Jews appear to have fostered the discovery of America, and that at the
time when Louis de Torres, who “first set foot on American soil” and
discovered the use of tobacco, he immediately became the Tobacco Trust

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Company, with the criminal intention of gobbling up all the stock of
tobacco then to be found growing on the newly discovered continent.
How in the name of common sense could he help control the tobacco,
when in the first place there was no other white man on the whole con¬
tinent, and in the second place, when tobacco was considered a useless
and harmful vegetation by the Indians? The fact that Jews have
helped financially to accomplish the long voyage of Christopher Colum¬
bus, at once looms up large in the eyes of Mr. Ford, that the “secret
organization to control all the wealth and power of the earth” was
formed then and there, and to aid Mr. Ford's far-reaching imagination
we will suppose the following scene to have been enacted on the first
day of the landing of Christopher Columbus.

THE ORIGIN AND ADMISSION OF THE PROTOCOLS.”

Said Mr. Louis dc Torres, “Look here Brother Sanchez, we the
Jews have furnished the money and therefore a Jew T must first step
out of the boat and row ashore to set foot on this new land. You
know well enough, that if we do not insist upon doing this, then the
Jews, a million years from now, will call us traitors and cowards and
untrue to our secret organization which has sworn to dethrone the
Kaiser, and to control all the money in Wall Street. Let us have a
talk with Chris,” (the pet name then given to Columbus), “and ask
that we be allowed to row over at once and take official possession of
this land, whatever its name may be.” The five Jews on board then
made their way to Columbus, and formally asked to be allowed to
row over to the new land. Columbus objected, but, (as Mr. Ford
repeatedly asserted this to be a distinct characteristic of the Jew),
Mr. Sanchez took Columbus oh one side and handed him a quarter
as the first installment on a little loan, and the thing was done. One
hour after this, these five Jews landed, with Louis de Torres as the
first white man to set foot on what we today call America. Imme¬
diately upon their arrival, Louis de Torres looked over the tobacco
situation and took possession of all the tobacco industries and cigar
stores. There were plenty of Indians around to watch him, and hence
the wooden Indian in front of the modern cigar stores. They then
entered a saloon and proceeded to draw up an agreement, wherein
they pledged themselves to control everything controllable, and what
could not be controlled or was not worth controlling, to leave to the
Gentiles. This document is now in the possession of Mr. Henry Ford,
and not less than six articles has he published exposing this dastardly
document, which he calls “The Protocols.” In this document, of which
not a single living Jew has any knowledge, these five Jews some four
hundred years ago, concocted a plan to dominate the whole world, to
overthrow all the kingdoms, to kill all the Gentiles, to destroy all the
pork, as Jews do not eat any pork, to exterminate every oyster in
order to deprive the Gentile from eating what is forbidden to the Jew,
and in short make life as miserable as it can be made for everybody
who was not a Jew. The Jews are to blame, according to the “Pro¬
tocols" for having deprived the Gentile of his whiskey and beer, de¬
stroying the liberty of the people; the Jews are to blame, now we

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know by these “ Protocols " for Blue Laws which have not yet been
passed but soon will be and everything that has ever happened, or
ever will happen, is ascribed to the Jew, and only, because these five
Jews who first stepped upon dry land in America, got their heads to¬
gether and drew up the “Protocols. " Now the secret is out, and the
writer is ready to be crucified by the enraged Jews, for having played
the traitor to his race. So be it.

But of these 4 ‘Protocols’' we will have more to say in a succeeding
chapter. We wish to return to the main point on 4 ‘Jewish History in
America." In the time of George Washington there were about 4,000
Jews in the country, most of them traders. It was Haim Salomon, a
Jew, who helped the colonials out with the loan of his entire fortune at
a critical moment. From that time on, until this very day the Jew
has always shown his loyalty and interest in the welfare of this count-
try, which by privilege of the glorious constitution of America, he has
come to look upon as his home. And it is right that he should so re¬
gard this country. Real Americanism encourages the adoption of this
country as the home of the foreigner. But is the Jew a foreigner any
more than the people who classify themselves Americans ? Has he not
worked and traded and helped and fought from the very beginning
to make this country what it is, alongside with his Gentile neighbors?
Do Mr. Ford's articles not emphasize this very fact again and again?
Why then attack the Jew for wanting to live and work and breathe
in the country which is as dear to him as it is to others?

ASSIMILIATING THE JEW.

Mr. Ford says that the Jew, although participating in the up¬
building of America, “does not and never has assimilated." Just
what does he mean by assimilation ? Does that include the abolishing
of religious principles, something which neither common sense nor
Americanism demands? Does he not know that the very first thing a
Jew does upon his arrival here, is to declare his intention of becoming
an American citizen? Does Mr. Ford willfully overlook the fact that
86% of the Jews become American citizens after the expiration of
the legal five years residential period? We boldly declare that there
is no other race or nationality upon the American continent that can
measure up with the Jews in the acquisition of American citizenship.

One need only to spend a short time in the large Jewish Ghetto
in New York City, where the greatest Jewish center in the world is
found, and then make a study of conditions there, and very soon the
idea of assimilation will assume an aspect favorable to the Jew. Here
one can see that the Jewish children are American children, that the
language spoken is English, and that the public libraries have a
record of books read by the Jews, which shows that Jews in America
are Americans with American ideals, thoughts and ambitions, and not
Russian or Polish or Roumanian. This is assimilation. Yet it is true

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that the Jewish shop does not sell pork; it is true that the American
pJew prefers to worship his God in his own Jewish Synagogue; that the
Jewish woman still adheres to the cooking of “Gefillte Fish" on Fri¬
day night, and that the day of rest is still Saturday with him. These
are his religious convictions. And no man will dispute the right of an¬
other to stick to his religious convictions. The fact is, that our Con¬
stitution not only does not forbid it, but actually guarantees the Jew
to live up to his religion without molestation. The Jew is a Jew by
religion, and his nationality is American by choice and naturalization.
Mr. Ford is an American because he could not help being one, but the
Jew, while acquainted with all other nations on earth, has chosen to
become ail American. It is a compliment to the wonderful Republic of
ours, and while the Jew glorifies in having found a home where preju¬
dice and slander w r ere unknown until Mr. Ford's millions began to
speak, America is proud to have been chosen among* all other nations
to be the home of the Jew also.

HAVE OTHERS “ASSIMILATED?"

And speaking of religious convictions. Let us have a look at the
Roman-Catholic-Amerieans. The reader will forgive us for hyphenat¬
ing Americanism. The author feels reluctant in doing it, as he believes
that an American is ari American no matter what his religion may be.
But for the sake of the argument we will hyphenate this time. Very
well, let us look at the Roman-Oatholic-American. For the most part
he is not a foreigner,—is born here and so were his parents and fore¬
fathers for generations. But if you were to follow him in his daily life,
you will notice that he enters public worship and the priest, an Ameri¬
can, chants and prays in a Language utterly foreign to Americans. It
is Latin, a language no longer used either here or elsewhere. The
practices of the Roman-Catholic Church will give one the impression
that its adherents were all foreigners, because they still use a foreign
language in their worship, and so, naturally, according to Mr. Ford, we
would conclude that they have not assimilated. Shall we start a propa¬
ganda against them now and demand, absolutely demand, that they
begin forthwith to abandon all those foreign customs and adopt Amer¬
ican customs, eat American food, stop eating fish on Friday, etc?

How ridiculous! The Jew has been without a country, that is
true. He has been persecuted everywhere because he insisted in stick¬
ing to his religious principles. And persecution began when the nations
insisted that he exchange his religion for another. It was in the Middle
Ages, when Christians were only such in name, that crusades were in¬
augurated to force the Jews into conversions, and those who kissed
the cross, were spared, while those Jews who could not and would
not conscientiously commit such a crime without heart conviction, were
butchered in the name of the cross. The cry was then, that the Jew
would not “assimilate." The most horrible injustices were done him
for refusing to follow the cross. Not Christ, mind you, but the cross.
For it is the belief of the author, that if those nations who were living

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in n benighted age, would have approached the Jew on an intellectual
basis, pointing out to him that Jesus of Nazareth, who was the divine
man, the only man of Divine origin, the world has ever known or ever
will know, was the great teacher of love and charity, the man of sor¬
rows and of grief,—and that in Him the wandering Jew will find con¬
solation,—it is the belief of the author, that there never would have
been any need of persecutions, that the Jew would have listened and in¬
quired and studied and—accepted. But persecution has hardened him,
has estranged him from his own brother,—the Jew, Jesus of Nazareth.
And surely with the cry, “Down with the Jew” by Mr. Ford or by any¬
one else, these horrible errors by leaders in the middle ages will cer¬
tainly not be rectified even today.

WHAT GREAT JEWS THINK OF CHRIST.

No one more than the writer of this little book wishes to see the
Jews accept the spiritual leadership of Jesus of Nazareth. But if this
were to be accomplished by force then lie would prefer ten thousand
times to die alongside with the Jews in unbelief. The great Apostle,
Paul, also a Jew, expressed his desire to “be accursed 77 if by his own
sacrifice the Jews could he made to see the truth as outlined in the
Jewish New Testament.

But the modern Jews are already beginning to look more kindly
upon the subject of Jesus Christ. The author begs leave to quote from
speeches and writings of some of the prominent Jewish teachers of
today:

Benjamin Disraeli (The Earl of Beaconsfield)—“ The pupil of Moses may ask
himself whether aU the princ.es of the House of David have done so much for the
Jews as that Prince who was crucified. ”

“Had it not been for Him the Jews would have been comparatively unknown,
or known only as a high Oriental Caste which had lost its country. Has not He
made their history the most famous history in the world?

“The wildest dreams of their Rabbis have been far exceeded. Has not
Jesus conquered Europe and changed its name to Christendom? All countries that
refuse the cross, will and the time will come when the countless myriads of America
and Australia will find music in the Songs of Zion, and solace in the parables
of Galilee. ’ ’—Beaconsfield 's Life of Lord Bentinck.

Rabbi Rudolph Crossman, D. D.—“Wo Jews honor the Nazarene as our
brother in faith, sprung from our loins, nurtured at Israel ’a knee, a teacher of
sweet and beautiful ideals, a preacher whose influence has been and still is among
the mightiest spiritualizing factors in the world.”—(Randal, The Unity of
Religion, page 156).

Rabbi E mi l G. Hlrsch, Ph. D., LX*. D.—“For me Jesus is an historical reality.
The gospel Jesus, the Jesus who teaches so superbly the principles of Jewish ethics,
is revered by all the liberal expounders of Judaism. His words are studied; the
New Testament forms a part of Jewish literature. Jesus was distinguished for
His love for the common people, in Him beat a heart attuned to the higher possi¬
bilities of the human kind. For him religion was not altogether form and cere-

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mony; it was devotion and duty. The New Testament is flesh of our flesh and
bone of our bone. * 7

Rabbi Krauskcpf, Philadelphia.—“I w r ill yield to none in recognizing the
civilizing influence of the man of Nazareth. I am ready to bestow upon. Him as
high a tribute as anyone has yet bestowed. If I cannot say that it was He who
made divinity human, I am ready to rank Him among the foremost of those who
have made humanity divine.”

Prof. M. Lazarus, Ph. D.—“I am of the opinion that we should endeavor
with all possible zeal to obtain an exact understanding of the great personality of
Jesus and to reclaim him for Judaism.”

Rabbi I, Lichtenstein, Hungary.—“But I see the day coming when the Jew
will all at once recognize his great mistake and accept his brother Joseph who is
the Lord of all Egypt and will crown him their King. Then the Jew will no longer
be like a pane of glass that is broken, the grass that withers, the flower that fades,
the cloud that passes by, the wind that blows, the speck of dust that is carried
away, no more a toy of nations. No! Then will the Jew be born again and the
Jewish Nation become renewed and make a covenant with all the nations, becom¬
ing the apostle of all the earth.

Max Nordau, (Famous Criminologist and Zionist)—“Jesus is the soul of our
soul, flesh of our flesh. Who then could think of excluding Him from the people
of Israel? lie honors our race, and we claim Him as we claim the Gospel-flowers
of Jewish literature, and only Jewish.”—(From a letter to Pere Hyacinthe which
appeared in the Jewish Chronicle, Dec. 5, 1899).

Rabbi Salee.—“But we who arc Jews today, certainly have no cause to regret
his coming into the world, and have every reason to look forward to the time
when the message of this hour will find an echo in the heart and life of mankind.
The Gospel of Jesus was the glad tiding of Israel's own universal truth. The
teacher of Nazareth was our own kith and kin, both in the flesh and in the spirit.
We revere his memory, claim him as our own, and gladly accord him that high
rank which he deserves as one of the greatest benefactors of the human family.
Nay, we do not mourn, but. we rejoice that Jesus was born, and through him.
despite the shortcomings, despite the manifold prejudices that still darken human
hearts, this world at large is infinitely better and brighter than it would have been
without him. We would not conjure the dread spectacles of the past; we thank
God that we live in the present, with its wider liberty, its nobler humauiyt.”

Jacob Schiff, (American philanthropist)—“We Jews honor and revere Jesus
of Nazareth as we do our own prophets w T ho preceded Him. By His martyrdom,
His teachings have been emphasized and these are to this day, I believe, often
better practiced by the descendants of the race he sprang from than by those
who have become the followers of Christ in name, but not in spirit, else the preju-
dico practised by the latter against Jews would not exist.”

Rabbi Joseph Silverman, D. D.—“We deplore and condemn the crucifixion of
Jesus of Nazareth. He was without doubt one of nature's noblemen, pure in
sentiment and action, a great leader and reformer of men. His was the execu¬
tion of an innocent man.”—(Neely's, The Parliament of Religions 636).

Isidore Singer, Ph. D., (Managing Editor of the Jewish Encyclopedia)—“I re¬
gard Jeans of Nazareth as a Jew of Jews,one whom all Jewish people are learning
to love. We are all glad to elaira Jesus as one of our people.”

Rabbi Bmanul Weill (of France)—“Let ub then as Jews, be thankful that
there was a Jeeue and a Paul.”

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Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, Pli. D.—“It is no mean joy and igaoble pride in us
of the House of Israel to recognize, to honor and to cherish among- our brothers—
Jesus the Jew . 1 ’

Dr. H. Zhitlovsky—“Every Jew should be proud of the fact that Jesus is
our brother, flesh of our flesh and blood of our blood. We desire to put Him back
where He belongs/'

And so we see that the Jew does “assimilate’’ if that is what Mr.
Ford wants him to do. And the beauty of it ail is, that the Jew is
gradually becoming friend and follower of the Lowly Nazarene, not
because he is forced to, but because, enjoying the highest degree of lib¬
erty among civilized nations, he is given a chance to study, to reflect
and to decide for himself. How foolish then is the statement that ap¬
peared in the Dearborn Independent, that the Jews have declared the
New Testament to be the “book which encourages anti-semitism.” We
understand, of course, why this statement has been made. The idea
is to enlist the Church of America to follow in Mr. Ford’s footsteps.
But the church has learned that the Jew cannot be won by threats
and persecution. Education is the thing and the Church is adopting
that.

ARE JEWS SELFISH?

In order to better understand the historical progress of the Jew
in America, and show that his ambition is not altogether centered upon
self-enrichment and greed, as Mr. Ford would have us believe, we
will take the Jew in New York City as a criterion and what is true of
the Jew in New York is true comparatively speaking of the Jew every¬
where else. What has the Jew done for others?

b No other Church in the world has in the short time of the Jew’s
arrival in America, accomplished what the Jewish Church or Synagogue
can rightly boast of. Outside of the many strictly ritual institutions,
the Jevy has at an expenditure of $20,000,000, established a large num¬
ber of independent schools, in which Jewish children are taught to be
Jews, while during the day, these children attend public schools, in
which they learn to be men and women and Americans. There are
Economic Agencies, Non-Commercial Employment Bureaus, Vocational
Schools, Free Loan Societies, Mutual Aid Agencies, Philanthropic
Agencies, Relief Societies, Hospitals, Jewish Day Nurseries, Homes for
the Aged, Institutions for Central and National Organizations,—includ¬
ing sub-organizations for educational, social, cultural, economic, mutual
aid, philanthropic and other branches pertaining thereto. All these
organizations are for the benefit of people of New York and applicants
are never asked questions as to their religion or nationality. Charity
and aid is tendered to all.

The greatest of all the blessings in which the Jew bad a share in
bestowing upon the great Metropolis, is the wonderful hospital work
with which he has so generally equipped the city. Among the count¬

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less number of Hospitals, there stands highest in rank the Mount Sinai
Hospital erected at an expenditure of $2 ; 000,000. This hospital min¬
isters to Jew and Gentile alike. Ten thousand cases are treated in a
single year in that hospital alone, and in its free dispensary, help and
counsel are given to 250.000 patients a year, (last year 234,161 patients
were ministered to.) This hospital has also a training school for nurses
and physicians, and furnishes nurses to patients who cannot be moved
and have to be treated in their homes. This hospital is a monument,
testifying that the Jew is ever rady to part with his bank roll in order
to help suffering humanity. But it is only one of the many hospitals
spread all over the great city of New York and Brooklyn. In the face
of all this, even Mr. Ford in an unguarded moment cannot help ex¬
claim, “The record of the Jews in charity is noble; if you are in dis¬
tress and suffering, the Jewish heart would have sympathy.” (See
chapter, “Jewish History in the United States,” by Henry Ford).

And yet Mr. Henry Ford insists that the Jew is selfish by nature,
greedy and extremely reluctant to give up for the benefit of his fellow
man.

According to the tale that is told, the Jew has come to America in
order to become naturalized and then return to resume business abroad
under the guise of being an American. Instances are cited which show
that, some large concerns in-Europe styled as “The American Export
or Import Company,” are really Jewish and that the Jewish stock¬
holders or proprietors, 'were only assuming the “American” title in
order to facilitate business. If looked upon from a different stand¬
point, however, it would appear to us, that the Jew having once tasted
American freedom and democracy, shows his intense patriotism by not
being ashamed of his Americanism, much less being ashamed of his
Jewish religion. In the same chapter on “Jewish History in the United
States,” Mr. Ford discusses the progress of the Temple Emmanu-El,
which really has nothing to do wdth the subject at all. He finds fault
with that Temple for having raised $708,755 in one single year, whereas
in 1868, following the Civil War, this Temple raised only $1,520 for
its budget. This, of course, shows some more greed on the part of the
Jew in America. We can answer this ridiculous argument by saying
that the Methodist Episcopal Church after the Civil War had raised
in the neighborhood of $500 a year for missions, and in less than seven
months, last year, this church has raised $116,000,000. If the advance
and prosperity of the Jews of the Temple Emmanu-El is an indication
that they are greedy, what shall we say of the Methodist Episcopal
Church in America? Or for that matter of all other denominations that
have raised many millions for philanthropic or missionary purposes?

In conclusion of this chapter we will say let the American, whether
he be of English, German, French, or Italian origin say for himself
whether he finds the legitimate progress of the Jew in America a
menace or a blessing to the country.

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THE JEWISH QUESTION—FACT OR FANCY?

Is there a “Jewish Question?” This involves either a national or
a religious issue. If a national, we can state right off the reel that
since the Jews have no homeland of their own, absolutely controlled
by them, there can be no more talk of a “Jewish Question” than there
could be a ‘Question’ made of the Methodists or Presbyterians. In
other words, when we speak of a Jew, we speak of a man’s religion.
And surely we can make no issue of a man’s religion.

THE JEWS ARE GENTILES.

Where does the Jew come from? Who is he and who are his an¬
cestors? The first known Jew was Abraham, that is, he was really not
a Jew to begin with, but a Gentile. The Bible tells us that at one
time in Abraham’s life, Jehovah spoke to him and told him that he
was to become the father of a people whose foremost characteristic
would be their strong faith in Jehovah. Circumcision was ordered, and
Abraham became the first Jew. We see, therefore, that the Jew is
really a Gentile and that he adopted the faith of his father, Abraham,
which made him a Jew.

The whole world is therefore one family, a family composed of
people with different religions. Yet they are one family. The New
Testament substantiates this very clearly. We read in the Gospel
Book called, “The Epistle of the Romans,” tenth chapter and the
twelfth verse, “for there is no difference between the Jew and the
Gentile.” How then can we make it a question? If in the eyes of God,
there is no difference, why should we mere human beings make it an
issue? There was also in the days of Christ one who thought there was
a difference. A very interesting story it is indeed, and "mav be com¬
pared with the present. The questioner taking Mr. Ford’s place, while
the. one questioned is to be regarded as the type of the Jew of today.
This story also is found in that wonderful book called the New Testa¬
ment. This book,, the “New Testament,” was written by the Jews for
the benefit of all the people in the world, including Mr. Ford, and we
do not hesitate to quote therefrom in proving that, there is no differ¬
ence between Jew and Gentile and that the “Jewish Question” is only
a question in the mind of the “Independent.”

ST. JOHN TELLS A STORY.

It was in the sixth hours of a very hot afternoon when Jesus of
Nazareth, in passing through a Gentile country, theu inhabited by
Samaritans, stopped at a place called Sychar, where Jacob’s well was.
Being very tired from a long journey, be leaned on the well, when a
woman of Samaria, a prostitute, came to draw water. Jesus asked
her to be so kind and give Him a drink. This is what the woman re-

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plied, “How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of m e, w ho am a
woman of Samaria ? The JEWS HA YE NO DEALINGS WITH THE
SAMARITANS.” This woman had as wrong a conception of the Jew
in her day as the man Ford of the Jew of today. She merely took it
for granted that the Jews would not mix, would not assimilate and
that, as Mr. Ford so many times repeats, the Jew absolutely abhors
having any dealings with the Gentiles, unless it is for the purpose of
exploiting them. But Jesus, whom we choose to regard as a type of
the Jews, immediately convinced that woman that she was wrong, and
that she made much of a “Jewish Question” which really did not exist.
He gently reminded her of her wrongdoings, and when finally the only
possible subject for discussion arose, namely, the subject of worship,
of religious convictions, Jesus said this, “Woman, believe me, the hour
cometh when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem,
worship the Father. Ye worship, ye know not what, we know what we
worship: for salvation is of the Jews. . But the hour cometh

and now is, when the TRUE worshipers shall worship the Father in
spirit and in truth; for the Father seeketh such to worship Him.” In
other words, the intention of Jesus was to impress the woman with
the thought that there is really no difference between the Jew and the
Gentile, and that the day is coming when both Jew and Gentile will
worship one God, who is Jehovah, the God Jews were the first to recog¬
nize as Supreme.

Another Biblical instance which proves that the Jew as a Jew is
such by religion only and that nationality cannot enter into considera¬
tion, is found in the epistle to the Romans, second chapter and twenty-
eighth and twenty-ninth verses, “For he is not a Jew, which is one out¬
wardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh;
but he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the
heart, in the spirit and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men,
but of God. ”

According to that, there are so-called Jews then who are only Jews
in name, horn of Jewish parents, raised in the Jewish faith, but. who
have ceased to be Jews, once they have voluntarily entered into the
class described in Rom. 2: 28-29. Mr. Ford touches upon this point,
when he asks, “Since there are at least 1,000,000 Jews that are classed
as agnostics—are these any less Jews than the others? The world does
not think so.” He answer the question himself by simply stating “The
world does not think so,” meaning, of course, that Henry Ford does
not think so. But two thousand years ago this question was taken
up by no less a person than St. Paul himself. He thinks such are not
Jews, regardless of what Mr. Ford thinks. He says that these Jews are
not Jews. Once they abandon the ritual and diatary practices of the
Jewish faith, they actually cease to be Jews, and immediately become
members of the large family classified under the term “Heathen.” And
the missionaries are laboring for their souls’ salvation with the same
zeal and earnestness as they do for the salvation of the souls of the
Gentile unbelievers. They are Gentile unbelievers, and no longer Jews.

“The Jewish Question” is therefore, not a fact, but a fancy.

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Lest it be said that the liberal view of making the Gentile equal
to the Jew before God and men is shared only by Jesus and His dis¬
ciples w T e beg leave to quote from the Talmud, “ Rabbi Meir says, con¬
cerning the passage, ‘Men shall observe the law and live in it.’ It does
not specify Israelites, or Levites or Priests, but it says MEN; there¬
fore THE GENTILES who observe the law stand on a level with the
High Priest.”

THE JEW THREATENING AMERICA THROUGH THEATERS.

In one of the recent articles on “The International Jew” the
Dearborn Independent serves notice to America that among all other
institutions which the Jew has thus far captured, the theater, and espe¬
cially the Motion Picture Industry, the fifth greatest industry in the
world, has also come under Jewish control, and that through the theater
the Jew preaches his nefarious doctrine to mould public mind into
submission and world control.

CHARLIE CHAPLIN OF THE PROTOCOLS.’ ”

Now we know how r the Jew is doing it. Charlie Chaplin, who also
happens to be a pie-ous Jew has been slinging pies at everybody and
we have been thinking all the time that he was doing it for fun. But
since reading Mr. Ford’s articles we have become suspicious of Charlie.
He is a member of that secret “Protocol” combine, and has been
throwing pies with a view of helping his confreres, the Jews, to ac¬
quire world dominion. Of course, a pie is only a pie, but sometimes
even a pie is enough to start the world aflame. Woe be to America,
we exclaim as we watch Chaplin swinging that cane of his. His threat¬
ening (?) attitude is that of a Hindenburg, and his plots remind us of
a. Clemenceau or a Foch.

FATTY ARBUCKLE A TOOL OF JEWISH PLOTTING.

Fatty Arbuckle, a Gentile, who has become a tool in the hands
of the Jews, has been getting rather thin thinking up all kinds of
wicket schemes to help his Jewish employers gain control of the
White House in Washington. People who go to the “movies” do not
realize that every ten cents they pay for admission to the theaters is
helping these Jews to overthrow all the governments of the world;
to usurp the powers that be and to create, as it were over night, a condi¬
tion of affairs that will be spoken of in later history (to be written
in Hebrew) as the most appalling and.most uncivilized age of all time.

The Jew, it is said,- has. also practically killed theatrical art in
America. Since the Motion Picture Industry has shown a new way
of acquiring “Geiltile money” the Jew has readily closed all legitimate

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show houses and planted motion picture theaters in their places. It is
the Gentile money the Jew is after. We have noticed that when a
Jew wishes to see a moving picture show, he is never asked to pay
admission. All the Jewish writers, directors, photographers, and
artists are working for nothing, because it concerns the robbing of the
Gentile. “It is Gentile money the Jew is after.” The fact is, that
when a Jew goes to a moving picture theater, the cashier at the box
office glances hurriedly at the card which the Jewish attendant pro¬
duces, and the Jew is handed a one dollar bill for going in to see
the show. Thus, according to these articles in Henry Ford’s paper, the
Jews are getting control of the “Gentile money.”

“All motion picture plays are designed to throw public opinion in
favor of the Jew.” This is one of the statements. We recommend
that every Jew or Gentile study the plays for a week, consecutively,
if possible, and see for himself the outrage as “disclosed” which is
being “put over” on the American p^^blic of Gentile origin.

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ALL THESE WORLD FAMOUS NAMES “PROBABLY” PLOTTERS,

TOO.

“The Jews have not contributed anything towards real art.” The
following names, then, which are enshrined in the circles of art, liter¬
ary criticism and music probably indicate according to Mr. Henry Ford
another branch of the members of that “secret” society menacing the
world. For instance, Mendelsohn, Heine the brilliant lyrist, Auerbach,
Schnitzler, Hermann, Wasserman, Mendes, Israel Zangwill, the novel¬
ists; George Brandes, literary critic; Romanelli, Italian poet; Sutro,
Belasco, Bernstein, Arthur Schnitzler, Heyermanns, Nathansen, Max
Reinhardt, Rachel, Sonnenthal, Barnay, Sarah Earnhardt (“the divine
Sarah”), Backst and others in the dramatic world. Then we have some
in the realm of music and song, for instance: Mendelssolin-Bartholdy
Meyerbeer, Offenbach, Goldmarks, Bruch, Halevy, Julius Benedict,
Frederic Coweii, Joachim, Mark llambourg, Auer, Mischa Elman, Zim-
balist, Heifetz, Matzenauer, Alma Gluck, Fannie Bloomfield Zeissler,
etc., etc.

Perhaps we may also mention in this connection that the follow¬
ing Jews have also, “for commercial gain and for the purpose of con¬
trolling the world and all that is therein” achieved distinction in mathe¬
matics, physics, philology, law and philosophy. We will mention only
a few of the very many names: Spinoza, Emmanuel Kant, Herman
Cohen, Steinhals, Ascoli, Breal, Derenbourg, Oppert, Reinach, Asser,
Unger, Cantor, Jacoby, Minkowsky, Weingarten, Sylvester, etc. Berg¬
son’s theory of creative evolution is dominating philosophy today and
Dr. Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity, is considered the most im¬
portant scientific discovery since Newton’s theory of gravitation was
promulgated. In medicine, the names of Ehrlich, August von Wasser¬
man, Neisser, Frankel Traube, Stilling, Strieker, Lembroso, Marmorek,
and others are distinguished.

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AN INTERVIEW WITH THE ENEMY

Recently, the representative of the greatest Yiddish paper in the
world, The Daily Forward, went to the offices of The Dearborn Inde¬
pendent to seek an interview with Mr. Henry Ford, as the official head
of the weekly. Of course, Henry Ford does not write these articles
against the Jews. It is some one else. The main who is hired to do the
job for Mr. Henry Ford, is a certain Mr. Cammeron. He is a former
preacher, or at least from words spoken and from the general appear¬
ance of the man, the writer has been so impressed to believe. This
interview appeared in full in the columns of the Daily Forward, and
for the benefit of the readers of the Union Bulletin, it was translated
into English, and we reprint it herewith.

This article will show clearly how prejudiced Mr. Ford must be, to
have gone to such lengths as to hire a man to do “dirty work” for
him. It reminds us of Mark Twain, who said, that he had to hire a
man to do the swearing for him, because it was not nice for a gentle¬
man to swear. The following article appeared in the issues of Septem¬
ber 5 and 6 under the signature of Dr. 8. P. Kramer.

In this article dealing with the interview, the writer says the
following:

“It was not so easy to see the editor. The young lady who receives
callers at the office toid me that Mr. Cammeron, the editor, was busy.
I stated that my visit was about an urgent matter, that I was a Jewish
newspaperman and wished to speak to the editor about the Jewish
question. The young lady went out and came back with the informa¬
tion that Mr. Cammeron did not want to see anyone about the matter.
Everything that he has to say on the subject he publishes in his weekly,
and did not care to grant an interview with anyone. But I insisted that
I must see him. I wrote a note to this Mr. Cammeron. In this note
I told him of Jewish facts which he did not publish, I told him about
pogroms and other calamities which the Jews are compelled to suffer.
I told him I was a Jew myself, one of those whom he attacked, and
demanded that he show courage enough to receive me. I told him I
represented the largest Jewish newspaper in the world and demanded
an interview.

Seeing the Editor

“The note had the desired effect. The young lady came back with
the answer that Mr. Cammeron was ready to see me. I followed her
and she led me into a room where a man of fifty was sitting at a large
desk. He pointed to a chair near the desk, in front of him. I sat
down. I was now face to face with the anti-Semitic propaganda in
America. I scrutinized him. He looked like an Irishman, well built,
and short, with an immobile face, a rigid look, and I don't know why,
whether because of his appearance or for the reason of his clothes, I
had the impression—and it was later confirmed by the way he talked

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29

—that he was a former reverend. At length Mr. Cammeron pointed at
the note which I sent him and asked me what I wanted to see him about.

“ T wrote about the pogroms. You probably know that tens of
thousands of Jews are being killed in the most gruesome manner in
Europe. In your articles you say that the Jews are dangerous, that
they want to dominate the world. Why don't you write about these
pogroms? Why don't you publish these facts so that your readers
will know the truth?'

“ ‘Pogroms?” Mr. Cammeron said with a start. ‘Pogroms?
There are no pogroms. We get all kinds of reports. Some say there
was something of that kind, but others deny it. The Jews are raising
a false cry about it. We know all about it. We receive information
from many sources. For instance, just now we learned that in Poland
the Jews were against the Poles and were friendly to the Bolsheviki,
who were advancing on Warsaw. We know of a case where many
Jewish traitors who were sentenced to be shot were not shot in order
to avoid the charge that the Poles are murdering the Jews.”

“ ‘Where did you get this information?' I asked the editor of the
anti-Semitic weekly. I knew that about that time a Polish agent ar¬
rived in America who said exactly the same thing, and I wanted to
find out whether this Polish agent was the one who supplied Mr. Cam¬
meron with this information. But the editor chose not to answer
the question.

“Well, if you don't care to answer that question, would you mind
answering another one. You say the Jews were against Poland, that
they were friendly to the Red army. You don't tell me where you
learned of this fact, then tell me how to explain this phenomenon. If
that is true, why is that so ? Why should the people of a country wel¬
come a foreign army who is invading that country ?

No Pogroms!

“ ‘I know what you are driving at,' interrupted Mr. Cammeron,
‘you mean to tell me that that is because the Poles make pogroms
against the Jews.'

“Exactly, you guessed it right.

“ ‘But it is not true. The Poles are not making any pogroms. That
is, some say they are, hut others say they are not.'

“Now, listen, Mr. Cammeron, the entire world knows that pogroms
were made against the Jews, that even now these outrages continue.
Our government in Washington has official proof of this. That is a
fact that cannot be disputed.

“ ‘Well, suppose there were pogroms?’

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“If there were pogroms, why do you keep silent about them? Why
do you write that the Jews were clad in gold and ride in sumptuous
carriages? Why don’t you tell the truth, that they are bathing in
their own blood?

“He was silent.

4 4 You have become the official defender of the pogrom makers,
I continued. Through your attacks, you are justifying the acts which
take place over in Europe. You make pogroms with your pen. Your
work is that of a moral pogrom maker.

44 ‘No, no!’ Mr. Cammeron was startled. ‘I assure you, we don’t
mean that.’

“You may and you may not mean that. But one thing is sure—
you are doing it. You are spreading pogrom propaganda. Are you
willing to take the responsibility for an agitation which may lead to
a new race hatred in America, an agitation leading to pogroms?

“ ‘That will not be. That cannot be.’

“But your readers already talk about it. It is your agitation
which causes it. How can you conduct such propaganda? You know
how the negroes are persecuted. Why ? Because they are hated. They
have been reviled in the eyes of Americans. The latter believe every¬
thing that is said about negroes. That is why we have lynching parties
in the country. Do you want to bring us to such a pass that they will
start lynching Jews in America?

“Mr. Cammeron remained motionless, seemingly frightened by
the prospect. He was silent for a moment, then he replied: ‘We do
not want that. We mean no harm. But we are convinced that the
Jewish problem is an evil which must be solved, and we want to solve
it. These disclosures were started several times in the past, but every
time they were stopped. Somebody always interfered, and as a result
the papers stopped publishing the truth. But, we are not going to stop.
We will go ahead with our disclosures until we accomplish our end.’

“What do you mean by disclosures, Mr. Cammeron?

“ ‘I mean by that that we shall prove that the Jews entered into a
conspiracy to control the world.’

A World Conspiracy

“I smiled, and the anti-Semitic editor continued: ‘Yes, a con¬
spiracy to control the world! And let me tell you that you are not
going to control the world. Certainly not by force. We won’t let
you. ’

“I know that, Mr. Cammeron. Whenever it comes to applying
force and violence, Christians are very much superior to the Jews. But
that is not the point. All that is nothing but a foolish self-delusion.

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31

The Jews do not want to conquer the world. All they want is to be
let alone in peace. But there are some who won’t let them alone, who
plague them, who murder and calumniate them.

“ ‘You will not convince me,’ the editor interrupt^ me, ‘the Jews
do want to capture the world.’

“But, Mr. Cammeron, I am a Jew' myself and I assure you that I
do not even know about it. Let us both go out on the street and stop
as many Jews as you wish and ask them about, it. They will think us
crazy. You ask an Ukranian Jew, a Polish Jew what he wants and he
will tell you that he wants to be free from pogroms and from the fear
of pogroms. You ask an American Jew and he will tell you that he
wants to make enough ho pay the high rent, to pay the butcher and the
grocer. He does not even think of conquering the world.

“Mr. Cammeron listened attentively to these simple words. They
evidently made an impression on him. And at that moment I saw be¬
fore me not merely a convinced anti-Semitic, but also a simple, naive
man. He w r as surprised to learn that the Jews did not mean to con¬
quer the world. He was amazed at the discovery and I was amazed
at his amazement.

“Until then I thought that he himself did not believe this nonsense
about the Jews, that it merely furnished him an excuse for Jew baiting.
But now I began to think that it was possible that he actually be¬
lieved it.

He Knows Better.

“ ‘But. Jews have a special reason for being friendly to the Bol-
sheviki. Why arc the Russian Jews so friendly to them?’

“The Russian Jews are not friendly to the Bolsheviki at all. Pine
and Fisher reported that they were opposed to them.

“ ‘Yes, they tell us that the Bolsheviki make no pogroms and yet
they want us to believe that the Jews are opposed to Bolshevism.

“It is true that the Bolsheviki make no pogroms. But they abolish
private business, and the Jews, who, under the czars were not. per¬
mitted to engage in agriculture, to enter the crafts or the professions,
and were compelled to become a, people of merchants, now that the
Bolsheviki have abolished business, become pauperized and are forced
to seek new ways of gaining a livelihood. Physically they are safe
under the Bolsheviki, but economically they are worse off than ever and
that is why they are against Bolshevism. The Jews are opposed to
Bolshevism as anti-Jewish, yet you use this very argument to insult
and persecute the Jews.

“Mr. Cammeron made no reply to this.

“The whole thing, this entire campaign which you are conducting
is surrounded with mystery. Mr. Ford is not known to be an anti-

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Semite. He takes Jews into his factories, he occupies a prominent place
in society, how does it come then that he is conducting an agitation
which may lead to pogroms in America?

“ ‘Mr. Ford has no feeling or hatred for the Jews. He thinks
they are very able. Of the Christians, you see, he holds an entirely
different opinion. He thinks they are lazy and slow. One of the rea¬
sons for this we shall publish later on, to awaken the Christians to the
realization of this. But the trouble is, we lack certain secret docu¬
ments, we lack some of the proofs showing that Jews are planning to
control the world. And we want to prevent that. The world has
never been able to swallow the Jewish problem, but here in America
we shall solve it.’

“What secret documents have you? What proofs? Instead of
publishing your articles which create bad feeling between the Chris¬
tians and the Jews, would it not be better to let us all see your docu¬
ments and let all know what you know?

“ ‘We’ll do that, all right.’

The Unanswerable Argument.

“Then he leaned over toward me and said:

‘ ‘You say the Jewish people do not want to dominate the world,
now why is it that the Jewish people have been able to survive after
so much persecution and suffering? How does it come that they have
not been wiped off the face of the earth?’

“Why do you ask this? Is that perhaps the task which you have
undertaken? You shall know then. The Jewish people exist because
of its enemies, because of its persecutions. Persecution will never de¬
stroy the Jewish people.

“ ‘But the very fact that the Jews live, that they have been able
to withstand all persecutions—does this not point to something mys¬
terious about the whole matter, does this not imply that this people
will some day conquer the world? The Jewish leaders of old actually
did preach that the Jews would dominate the world, and the Jewish
leaders of our own day, the bankers, are trying to modernize this idea.
We have proofs that they wish to bring about the conquest of the
world by the Jews, and we wager,’ he added, ‘that anything these
leaders tell the Jewish people to do, the latter will do faithfully.’

“When I was about to leave Mr. Carnmeron asked me if I had
anything against Congress publishing the number of Jews in this
country?

“ ‘I am not the one to decide it,’ I answered, ‘but I see no harm
in it. For my part, they can publish even the number of Catholics. ’

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33

“ ‘Well, you see, and yet every time a bill is proposed in Congress
to that effect, there are some who oppose it. What does this show?’

“It shows that the Jews are afraid, that they do not want to make
themselves conspicuous.

“ ‘That may be true,’ Mr. Carnmeron said.

“And it then occurred to me that he had an idea that the fact
that the Jews were opposed to a special Jewish census was sufficient
proof that they conspired to control the world.

“In the course of our talk we touched upon many other questions,
but Mr. Carnmeron always came back to his idea of a Jewish con¬
spiracy. You might prove to him a thousand times that he was wrong,
his idea fixed, sincere or otherwise, could not be dislodged from his
mind. Again and again he reiterated that the Jews wanted to control
the world and that it was his holy mission not to let this come to pass,
that in the struggle with the Jews, everything was permissible. I
pointed out to him the dangerous consequences to which this stirring
of race hatred might lead, but Mr. Cameron remained unconvinced.
His call, his mission was to solve the Jewish problem.”

CONCLUSION.

We conclude by saying that the rise of the Jew is not due to his
desire to “get rich quick” and to rule the world, but it is due entirely
to the opening up of opportunities which the world, chiefly composed
of Gentiles, has until now withheld from him,—a fact which the world
at large is beginning to recognize. The Jew is not rising above others,
but alongside with others. He is not trying to put himself into posses¬
sion of all, but is placing his all at the disposal of all. When the world
rejoices he rejoices, too. When the world groans he groans with the
world. Where there is sorrow he shares sorrow; where grief, he is
there to partake. In giving he is generous and his heart bleeds with
the hearts of his neighbors when the world is suffering as it is suffering
now. We have no time to inaugurate spectacular persecutions. What
we need now is to help solve the one problem of this world, created by
God for all, namely, to help alleviate the suffering of the nations,—and
if the Jew has done something towards that, he has not lived in vain.

“I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew
hands, organs, dimensions, affections, passions? Fed with
the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the
same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled
by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? If you
tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die?

And if you wrong us. shall we not revenge? If we are like
you in the rest, we will resemble you in that. *'—Shakespeare.

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IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT.

This page is an appeal to the reader. Whether you are a Jew or a
Gentile, we appeal to you to become one of us and help us present a
strong written protest against the attempts of Henry Ford, or for that
matter, against the attempts of any one else in the future to start perse¬
cutions in our Free America. This country is not the place for such
persecutions. Our sons, Jews and Gentiles, have not gone out into the
world to suffer and bleed in order to find, upon their return home, a
land in which a man with money, can start a persecution against a
people that has helped and labored to make America one of the fore¬
most nations on earth, if not the greatest and most wonderful one.

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Just send in your name and address, and enclose a stamped en¬
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people from which Christ sprang that is being ridiculed; if you are a
Jew, you wall be interested because oceans of blood, — Jewish blood,
has flown for the preservation of Israel, and oceans more will flow
before the great day of the Lord, and you should be one of us.

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